GHOSTS

Snippet

If you cannot bear with your imperfect brother, take it for certain that you are very imperfect yourself... [and] being so imperfect we ought not to condemn. Remember also that if we are not patient and forbearing there is clear proof that we are more imperfect than we thought we were. Those who grow in grace grow in forbearance. He is but a mere babe in grace who is evermore saying, “I cannot put up with such conduct from my brother.”  C.H. Spurgeon The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, volume 16, sermon number 941, “The tender pity of the Lord.”

Scripture

“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 

“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.  Matthew 7:1-5

Song

Ghosts we used to know Mumford and Sons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6-EUSvJchI

You saw my pain, washed out in the rain

Broken glass, saw the blood run from my veins

But you saw no fault no cracks in my heart

And you knelt beside my hope torn apart

But the ghosts that we knew will flicker from view

And we'll live a long life

So give me hope in the darkness that I will see the light

Cause oh they gave me such a fright

But I will hold as long as you like

Just promise me we'll be alright

So lead me back

Turn south from that place

And close my eyes to my recent disgrace

Cause you know my call

And we'll share my all

And our children come, they will hear me roar

So give me hope in the darkness that I will see the light

Cause oh they gave me such a fright

But I will hold as long as you like

Just promise me that we'll be alright

But hold me still bury my heart on the coast

And hold me still bury my heart next to yours

So give me hope in the darkness that I will see the light

Cause oh they gave me such a fright

And I will hold on with all of my might

Just promise me that we'll be alright

But the ghosts that we knew will flicker from view

And we'll live a long life

Sentence Prayer

Father, Holy and perfect have mercy on one who is unholy and imperfect.

Christ, have mercy on all of us, sinners in need of a savior.

Holy Spirit, give me a glimmer of the dawn in my darkness

As I hold up a mirror to my own sin, my I forgive others

As Christ has forgiven me.

Amen